Anna Ritz is a Postdoctoral Research Associate. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 2012 and her Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown in 2008. She received a B.A. in Computer Science from Carleton College in 2006. She joined Virginia Tech in 2012.

Anna's research interests are in computational systems biology and computational genomic biology. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved structural variant analysis in human and cancer genomes, and her current research in Dr. T. M. Murali's group uses graph algorithms to model biological signaling pathways.